On Thursday 17 June 2010 12:57:38 Per Jessen wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
This includes the following activities in order to excel in our goals: [snip]
* Emphasize the value of communication and recognize cultural diversity within our community
I can't help thinking that this is just a blurp (waffle; saying something only for the sake of saying it). Maybe it belongs in some other context, but it's difficult to imagine what kind of _activities_ we would untertake in this respect.
During our strategy meeting, the initial item that cause that line to be there
was from me. And what the initial item was about was "making openSUSE
friendlier to women" (or rather "female contributors", even though that sounds
a bit odd and, don't burn me, I'm not a native English speaker ;)).
And my proposal was to actively reach out.
Of course, we also want the broader definition (as above, or in a different
form, such as Peter's proposal further on this thread) as a value. And we
should effectively state it, not just take it for granted, because it means
that we take action when those values are transgressed.
But back to activities. On the example of women (as contributors), one
activity could be to actively reach out to them by asking what we could do
differently or additionally in order to make it a place they would feel more
comfortable joining ?
And I'm not saying that just out of the blue, I've actually had plenty of such
discussions (but not about openSUSE, it was about FOSDEM), and I concur with
them that there needs to be some kickstarting to be done. Anyway, it's not the
time to discuss it, it was for the sake of an example.
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser